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Lately I’ve found myself explaining Web 2.0 to a number of people outside and inside (believe it or not and dissapointingly) the industry. Look here to find the article on it by Tim O’Reilly, the guy who coined the term. You can also see below for a fun little video on the subject. To give you a quick clue, if you like my blog and my YouTube reference, you like Web 2.0 
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Hello, I was tagged by the Jeremy Jacobs, in the UK:
1. I adore writing and I want to get better – the only way to do it is through practicing and defending ideas.
2. To meet interesting people from around the world.
3. There are a lot of advantages to NOT writing anonymously – my picture, my name and the fact that my Mum has the URL forces me to be authentic in both my writing and my RL.
4. Because I want my own space on the internet – instead of being subject to the whims of an administration (that is what work-time is for, not after-work-time).
5. I crave a place to throw ideas against a wall to see if they stick.
Over to you Raywat, Netchick, Michael-Ann, Greg and Jean..
In a December Wall Street Journal piece, Journalist Joseph Rago takes a pot shot at bloggers, saying that everything we do is simply a derivative of what the mainstream media does:
The blogs are not as significant as their self-endeared curators would like to think. Journalism requires journalists, who are at least fitfully confronting the digital age. The bloggers, for their part, produce minimal reportage. Instead, they ride along with the MSM like remora fish on the bellies of sharks, picking at the scraps.
I understand what he is saying. Yet, in order to get traffic and interest in their sites, most bloggers know that writing on current events, rather than individual events is most effective. In my experience, the more I talk about current events, famous people or books, the more I get Googled and the more subscribers I get.
You can see here for example, that Chris Brogen from Lifehack says that the best way to rank well is to be connected to other sites. You can also see here, a complaint that some bloggers set conversations, and others write based on those topics. I suspect that this has something to do with promoting blogs through linkbacks to and comments on other blogs. So, perhaps in order to survive in the early days and get our words read, like the remora fish bloggers have to grab onto those sharks – whether we want to or not.
I got this link sent to me from The World Question Center. This year’s question is "What Are You Optimistic About". They put the question out to the scientific community and they got 160 Answers. Here is how they describe it:
The 160 responses to this year’s Edge Question span topics such as string theory, intelligence, population growth, cancer, climate and much much more. Contributing their optimistic visions are a who’s who of interesting and important world-class thinkers.
Topics include "The Evaporation of the Powerful Mystique of Religion" and "The End of ISMs". There is a mix of celebrities such as Steven Pinker from Harvard University and others who are not well-known outside of their field.
This site is interesting, but from a usability perspective it stinks. There is not an easy way to navigate through the different responses other than the mysterious number system at the top, especially if you are looking for something specific. For example, if you are only interested in Physics, there should be a way to find only responses on that. Also, I think it is a bit disorienting for first-time users to wade through all of the press articles at the top of the answers.
That being said, the site has a lot of great insights, and really helps brighten my day when I need that sort of thing (like right now).
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